| "Day at the Beach" | Carol Emshwiller | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                            | "A Death in the House" | Clifford D. Simak | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Dreamsman" | Gordon R. Dickson | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Handler" | Damon Knight | 1960 |  | 
                                
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                            | "Inquiry Concerning the Curvature of the Earth's Surface" | Roger Price | 1958 |  | 
                                
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                            | "Make a Prison" | Lawrence Block | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                            | "Mariana" | Fritz Leiber | 1960 |  | 
                                
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                            | "Multum in Parvo" | Jack Sharkey | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                            | "No Fire Burns" | Avram Davidson | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                            | "No, No, Not Rogov!" | Cordwainer Smith | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Other Wife" | Jack Finney | 1960 |  | 
                                
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                            | "Plenitude" | Will Mohler | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Shoreline at Sunset" | Ray Bradbury | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Sound Sweep" | J. G. Ballard | 1960 |  | 
                                
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                            | "What Now, Little Man?" | Mark Clifton | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                            | "What the Left Hand Was Doing" | Randall Garrett | 1960 |  | 
                                
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                            | "The Man Who Lost the Sea" | Theodore Sturgeon | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Finalist |  | 1960 | The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |  | 1983 | The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg |  | 1989 | The World Treasury of Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell |  | 1990 | The Great SF Stories 21 (1959) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2016 | The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer |  | 2019 | Piet Nel Recommended Short Stories |  | 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |  | 
                    
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                            | "Flowers for Algernon" | Daniel Keyes | 1959 |  | 
                                
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                                        |  | Hugo Award - Story Winner |  |  | Gardner Dozois Recommended Short Stories |  | 1960 | The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F edited by Judith Merril |  | 1961 | Best SF Four: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin |  | 1970 | The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One edited by Robert Silverberg |  | 1971 | 1971 WSFA-Analog Poll of Best Modern SF Short Stories by Michael T. Shoemaker |  | 1982 | The Road to Science Fiction v. 4: From Here to Forever edited by James Gunn |  | 1983 | Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin |  | 1988 | Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology edited by Greenberg, Warrick, Waugh |  | 1999 | Locus All Time Poll |  | 2011 | Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts edited by Heather Masri |  | 2012 | Locus All Centuries Poll |  | 2018 | Sci-Fi Lists Top 200 - story |  | 2018 | ISFDB Most Viewed Short Stories |  | 2019 | Rich Horton Recommended Short Stories |  | 
                    
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